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Importance of Being Earnest

This is how Oscar Wilde described the philosophy of "The Importance of Being Earnest", his most sparkling, witty and light-hearted play of aristocratic manners and high society. To avoid family duties, Algernon...

Importance of Being Earnest

O. Wilde

Improve Your Spelling

The Penguin Writers` Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to grips with something for the...

In Cold Blood

Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote`s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation...

In Defence of Dogs

India. A Portrait

Insomnia

S. King

Iron in the Soul

Iron Kingdom: Rise & Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

`Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished … Iron Kingdom is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be … The...

It

S. King

Italian Short Stories 1

Italian Folktales

Its All About the Bike``

Ivanhoe

W. Scott

Ivanhoe

Вальтер Скотт

Scott`s noble knight, brave Ivanhoe, returns home from the Crusades to claim Rowena, an Anglo-Saxon princess, to be his bride. Before long he is embroiled in the struggle between Prince John and his brother, Richard...

Jackdaws

Follett

With the Allied invasion of Europe only days away, Flick Clairet, a steel-nerved operative in the British Army, leads a group of women into occupied France to destroy a vital German communications center. Their...

Jacobs Room``

Jamies Italy (PB) Ned

As a chef I find Italy so damn exciting. You know what? I should have been Italian. The love and sheer passion for food, for family and for life itself blows me away every time I go there. No other country has...

Jane Eyre

Orphaned into cold charity at the hands of her rich cousins and, later, at Lowood School, Jane escapes to take up a position as governess to the young ward of Mr Rochester. Their love affair, Jane`s discovery of...

Jane Eyre

C. Bronte

Jane Eyre is one of the great romantic heroines of world literature. Orphaned into cold charity at the hands of her rich cousins and, later, at Lowood School, Jane escapes to take up a position as governess to the...

Jane Austen: Life

The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin`s biography paints a...

Jane Eyre (Clothbound Classics) HB

Part of Penguin`s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with...

Jane Grigsons Vegetable Book``

Jeeves in the Offing

P.G. Wodehouse

When Jeeves goes shrimping at Heme Bay, Bertie Wooster is left to play a lone hand at aunt Dahlia`s rural lair -with the dubious assistance of a one-girl beauty chorus.

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

P.G. Wodehouse

Bertie gets himself into an utter pickle when he and Jeeves share Aunt Dahlia`s hospitality with the loathsome G. D`Arcy Cheesewright (a. k. a Stilton) and his on/off fiancee Florence. Add to this combination a fake...